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Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Harvard Business Review

Quality aside, we know that those with a reputation for past success tend to get disproportionate credit for future wins – the “ Matthew effect ” described by the sociologist Robert K. Leadership Strategy' Social scientists tell us that winners keep winning for several reasons. First off, they may just be better.

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Should You Gamble on Your Company's Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

This motto is vastly more ambitious than the previous one — to educate leaders who "make a decent profit — decently" — and ambition, as Nitin Nohria (now HBS's Dean) and James Champy wrote in The Arc of Ambition , is usually a valuable quality. Another key strategy is to match the person to the situation.

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